On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
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 From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm@cts.com] 
  Are you sure that it is not a CPT 8000?  That one
I am a bit familiar
 with and find ample references by a google search.  On 9000, I draw a
 blank. 
 Well, it says 9000 on the front, I believe. :)
  If it is truly 9000, what floppy disk size does
it use? 
 It was shipped, I think, with both 3.5 and 5.25" high-density floppy drives.
 I just found another 3.5" floppy that works in it on Saturday night.
 I got no manuals, no software (other than what was extremely messed up and
 left on the drive), and a disassembled machine.
 The machine is now in more-or-less good shape.  I need to pick the tumbler
 keyboard lock.  For now I've just disconnected it. (Or find a key that
 works)  I should also replace the power adaptor I've got plugged into the
 floppy drive, since it's also got a signal cable adaptor that's not being
 used. :)
 As I was saying, the installation was pretty botched by the time I got it.
 It boots -- thinks it runs MS-DOS 3.2 -- and that's really about it.  I
 believe the CPU was intel 286.  It has a "Tall Tree Systems" JRAM card and
 JLaser 3 (I think) daughterboard.  a 20MB MFM (or RLL?) 3.5" half-height
 hard disk. (Miniscribe, I believe) 
 
Obviously a next generation machine from the drives and O/S.  The 8000
was a Z-80 based machine.
  It also has (...and this is the reason I rescued it,
even though it is an
 intel machine) a really odd graphics adaptor with a 15-pin (two row
 D-shaped) connector that drives a full-page monochrome (white) EGA monitor. 
Sounds Mac like.
  That's pretty much all I know about it.
 Regards,
 Chris 
Thanks, Chris, I appreciate the info.  Sorry I cannot help you.
                                                 - don
  Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
 Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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